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Walter Benjamin Quotes: The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
         

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.


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The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.



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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.



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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.



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